**Sword and Swordsman… But which is master?** **Stormbringer,** the mighty runesword, hangs far away in the city’s armoury. **Elric,** haunted albino warrior-king, has sworn never again to touch the enchanted blade. But now he needs it as never before. Evil supernatural beings have abducted Zarozinia, his lovely wife. He would sacrifice the world itself to rescue her. But will **Stormbringer** – seemingly endowed with a mind of its own – allow it? **Elric** is fated to ride out again over spectral landscapes, with the sentient blade he both loves and hates, which has slain enemies – and claimed comrades!